Better Than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream

This wise and humane book examines the cultural obsession with self-improvement through medical interventions such as Prozac, Botox, and surgery, questioning where self ends and societal expectations begin.

Carl Elliott delves into the American dream of fulfillment, highlighting how these 'enhancement technologies' blur the lines between treatment and transformation, and ponders if we are truly better off in a society that rewards the medicated and enhanced over natural states.